Olivier Rieppel - Phylogenetic Systematics (Species and Systematics)

Haeckel to Hennig

The Species and Systematics series will investigate the theory and practice of systematics, phylogenetics, and taxonomy and explore their importance to biology in a series of comprehensive volumes aimed at students and researchers in biology and in the history and philosophy of biology. The book series will examine the role of biological diversity studies at all levels of organization and focus on the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of research in biodiversity dynamics. The philosophical consequences of classification, integrative taxonomy, and future implications of rapidly expanding data and technologies will be among the themes explored by this series. Approaches to topics in Species and Systematics may include detailed studies of systematic methods, empirical studies of exemplar taxonomic groups, and historical treatises on central concepts in systematics.

Editor in Chief: Kipling Will (University of California, Berkeley)

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Sandra Carlson (University of California, Davis, USA)

Marcelo R. de Carvalho (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Darren Curnoe (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Malte C. Ebach (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Christina Flann (Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, The Netherlands)

Anthonoy C. Gill (Smithsonian Institution, USA)

Mark S. Harvey (Western Australian Museum, Australia)

David R. Maddison (Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA)

Olivier Rieppel (The Field Museum, Chicago, USA)

Felix Sperling (Strickland Museum of Entomology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

David M. Williams (The Natural History Museum, London, UK)

Ren Zarageta i Bagils (University of Paris 6, France)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rieppel, Olivier.

Title: Phylogenetic systematics : Haeckel to Hennig / Olivier Rieppel.

Description: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2016. | Series: Species and systematics | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016007225 | ISBN 9781498754880 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Cladistic analysis--Germany--History. | National socialism and science.

Classification: LCC QH83 .R54 2016 | DDC 578.01/2--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016007225

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The Species and Systematics series is a broad-ranging venue where authors can provide the scientific community with comprehensive treatments of the history and philosophy of fundamental concepts in systematic biology, phylogenetics, and the science of taxonomy. The series also intends to connect historical perspectives to new ideas and emerging technologies that have implications for the field. The series is committed to stimulating discussion among students and researchers in biology on controversial and clarifying ideas related to the future course that we are charting in biodiversity research.

There are many approaches to the study of biological diversity and to embrace this, future volumes in the series may include detailed development and comparisons of existing and novel methods in systematics and biogeography, empirical studies that provide new insights into old questions and raise new questions to biologists and philosophers of science, and historical treatises on central and reoccurring concepts that benefit from both a retrospective and a new perspective. Some volumes will address a single important concept in great depth, giving authors the freedom to present ideas with their own slant, whereas others will be edited collections of shorter papers intended to place alternative views in sharp contrast.

For science in general and certainly for systematics, few things are more significant than placing the origin and evolution of an idea or principle in its historical context. In this book, Olivier Rieppel does a masterful job of fixing Haeckel as an anchor point for a thread that weaves through and touches virtually every important principle of phylogenetics, leading to Hennigs ideas that launched the cladistic revolution. The detailed consideration of how this thread of ideas played out in the arena of heavy biopolitics, which colors both language and intent, gives readers new insights into many concepts fundamental to current and future research. Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig is an excellent example of scholarship and a very fine addition to the series that will make the reader pause and think and then evoke discussion, both of which are chief goals of the series.

Kipling Will

Berkeley, California

I am deeply indebted to Chuck Crumly, the editor at CRC Press, Kipling Will, the series editor, and Jennifer Ahringer, production coordinator, for their interest, help, and support in seeing this book though publication. I am equally deeply indebted to staff, who received me warmly and offered much help in the University Archives in Gttingen, Greifswald, Halle/Saale, Harvard, Tbingen, and Zurich; at the State Archives in Basel and Zurich; at the Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin-Dahlem; at the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archives, formerly Berlin Documentation Center), Berlin-Lichterfelde; and at the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle/Saale. Invaluable help in the search for illustrations was provided by the following individuals: